Re:Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1k years stuns archaeolo...
by elpakal on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:51AM
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I was born and lived for some time in the nearby state of Chiapas. Currently a coder working in a big city, fighting traffic and pollution every day, away from wife and kids, worrying about production issues, health, etc. When I see articles about discoveries like this it always brings me back to my childhood days driving around the Palenque ruins, seeing the miles and miles of hills which were obviously ruins that had become overgrown but that the government had yet to uncover. There are countless more discoveries like this just waiting in plain sight. Knowing that always gives me some kind of peace inside - what we know about ourselves and how we have evolved is very little.
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Re:Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1k years stuns archaeolo...
by peterlk on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @11:08AM
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"... We need wilderness preserved--as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds--because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it. It is good for us when we are young, because of the incomparable sanity it can bring briefly, as vacation and rest, into our insane lives. It is important to us when we are old simply because it is there--important, that is, simply as an idea." - Wallace Stegner
Your comment reminded me of this excerpt of a letter to the American Congress about environmental preservation.